阿富汗塔利班武装分子报酬达政府军3倍
 
 
2006年7月22日 星期六
 
阿富汗塔利班武装分子报酬达政府军3倍
    Taliban goes for cash over ideology
 
塔利班(Taliban)找到了一个招募战斗人员的办法，这个办法不是靠精神感召，而是依靠金钱的永恒魅力。
 The Taliban has found a way to recruit fighters that is less about winning hearts and minds and more about the enduring appeal of cold hard cash.
 
他们付给战斗人员每天多达12美元，以同诞生不久的阿富汗国民军作战。据阿富汗军官说，国民军每天付给前线士兵的军饷仅4美元。
 They are paying fighters up to $12 a day to fight the fledgling Afghan National Army, which pays only $4 a day to its soldiers in the field, according to military officials.
 
“塔利班得到了巴基斯坦的支持，他们从毒品贸易中赚到钱，所以他们拿到的酬劳比我们的士兵多，”国民军第205团的米乌丁•高里(Myuddin Ghouri)上校说。
 “The Taliban are supported by Pakistan and they get money from the drugs trade so they get more pay than our soldiers,” said Colonel Myuddin Ghouri of the national army’s 205 Corp.
 
虽然阿富汗国民军拥有一些优势，包括武器装备精良以及与英军相同的医疗条件，但部队经常要到远离家乡的地方去冒生命危险。“如果你是山区小伙子，有人给你每天12美元报酬让你留在本地，或者你也可以每天拿4美元酬劳，在离家很远的地方打仗，你愿意跟谁走？”戴维•哈蒙德(David Hammond)中校说道。这位英军第7空降团的军官正在训练南部赫尔曼德省的阿富汗军官，这是一项培训指导计划的一部分。
 While the ANA has the advantage of superior equipment and the same medical treatment as British troops, its troops often have to risk their lives far from home. “If you were a lad in the hills and you were offered $12 to stay local or you could take $4 and fight miles away from home, which would you do?” said Lieutenant Colonel David Hammond, an officer with 7 Para who is training Afghan officers in the southern province of Helmand as part of a mentoring scheme.
 
军饷差距使得3.8万人的阿富汗国民军自1月份以来的征兵工作更为困难，而它所要面对的是一支装备好得多、资金也充裕得多的叛军。西方官员此前估计，塔利班武装分子数量已从去年的2000名上升到了今年的6000名。塔利班则号称有1.2万人。
 The pay difference is making it harder to recruit soldiers to the 38,000-strong ANA, which has faced a much better equipped and funded insurgency since January. Western officials have estimated the Taliban’s forces have risen from 2,000 last year to 6,000 this year. The Taliban claims to have 12,000 men.
 
由多民族士兵组成的阿富汗国民军，是“9/11”之后的成功故事之一，并受到大部分阿富汗人的欢迎。
 The multi-ethnic Afghan National Army has been one of the success stories of the post-September 11 era and is hugely popular with most Afghans.
 
但阿富汗官员在喀布尔表示，阿富汗士兵的军饷仍将是个问题。
 However, Afghan officials in Kabul say the pay of Afghan soldiers will remain a problem.
 
一位要求匿名的阿富汗官员说：“每月70美元的基本薪水三年前是笔数目不菲的钱，但现在就不那么容易招人，去跟一支不好对付的叛军作战了。”
 “Basic pay of $70 a month was a lot of money three years ago but it is harder to recruit people to fight in a bitter insurgency now,” said a Afghan official who spoke on condition of anonymity.